Víkingar

Sagas of the Lost Ages

Anno Domini 950 — the Isle of Lewis, Suðreyjar

Brothers will fight
and kill each other,
sisters’ children
will defile kinship.
It is harsh in the world,
whoredom rife
an axe age, a sword age
shields are riven
a wind age, a wolf age
before the world goes headlong.
No man will have
mercy on another.
— Völuspá (The Prophecy of the Seeress)